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Clerodendron polycephalum, Baker; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 300. 
Vernac. names.—Aporo (Lagos, Punch); Yawa (Oyo, Millson, 
- Moloney). Ex ` 
Lagos, Yoruba, and the Gold Coast. 
An infusion of the leaves applied to snake-bite Lagos (Punch, 
Herb. Kew). 
An erect shrub, 4 ft. high, flowers white, Ashanti (Chipp, Herb. 
Kew), a semi-creeping shrub, Lagos (Millen, Herb. Kew). 
Clerodendron scandens, Beauv.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 904. 
Ill.—Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Oware & Benin, ii. t. 62; Geel, Sert. 
Bot. v.; Bot. Mag. t. 4354. 
Vernac. name.—Fire Foré (French Guinea, Farmar). 
Lagos, Opobo, Cross River—Abokam, Ekom, and from Sene- 
gambia to the Cameroons. 
A climbing shrub, ornamental, flowers with green calyx and 
white corolla. 
Clerodendron sinuatum, Zook.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 295. 
Ill.—HBot. Mag. t. 4255. 
Lagos, Abeokuta, and also in Sierra Leone. 
An erect shrub, of low habit, flowering freely from the extremity 
of every branch, the dense heads of blossom being pure white and 
. very fragrant. 
Clerodendron splendens, G. Don: F1. Trop. Afr. V. p. 300. 
Ill.—Bot. Reg. (1842) t. 7; Paxton, Mag. ix. t. 103; Hartinger, 
Paradisus Vindob. i. t. 55; Hortic. Univ. v. (1844) p. 325; Le 
Jardin, 1895, p. 30; Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 504; De Wildeman, Etudes 
Fl. Bangala, frontispiece. 
l'ernac. names.—Adabi (Yoruba, Millson); Batabata (Congo, 
Burton); Olourn (Lagos, Millen). 
Widely distributed in West Africa. 
A climbing shrub, 4-6 ft. high, very ornamental, bearing dense 
terminal panicles of bright red flowers. 
Clerodendron Thomsonae, Balf. f.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 303. 
Iit.—Bot. Mag. t. 5313; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii. 1863, t. 7 & t. 
16 (fr. & seed); Ill. Hort. 1863, p. 358; Belgique Hortic. xiii. 
(1863) t. 10; Fl. des Serres, xv. (1862-65) t. 1534; Rev. Hort. 1867, 
p. 312; Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 504 (C. Balfouri); Journ. Hort. Ser. 9, 
xli. p. 135. 
Vernac. names.—Egwa, Oviakuku (Benin, Foster). 
Old Calabar River, Cross River and Niger Delta, found north to 
Kabba and Lokoja. 
A Das shrub, very ornamental, bearing many flowered 
cymes much laxer than in C. splendens, calyx white, corolla light 
crimson. 
